Web Content Caching and Distribution

A Message from the Workshop Chairs. Credits. Contributing Authors. 1: Mobility. Mobility-aware server selection for mobile streaming multimedia content distribution networks; M.M. Bin Tariq, et al. Performance of PEPs in cellular wireless networks; P. Rodriguez, V. Fridman. 2: Applications. Edge caching for directory based Web applications: Algorithms and performance; A. Kumar, R. Gupta. Computing on the edge: A platform for replicating Internet applications; M. Rabinovich, et al. Scalable consistency maintenance for edge query caches: Exploiting templates in Web applications; K. Amiri, et al. 3: Architectures. Proxy+: Simple proxy augmentation for dynamic content processing; Chun Yuan, et al. Synopsis: Multicast cloud with integrated multicast and unicast content distribution routing; Dan Li, et al. Synopsis: A large enterprise content distribution network: Design, implementation and operation; J. Van der Merwe, et al. Synopsis: Architectural choices for video-on-demand systems; A. Al Hamra, et al. 4: Multimedia. Dynamic cache reconfiguration strategies for cluster-based streaming proxy; Yang Guo, et al. Stream engine: A new kernel interface for high-performance Internet streaming servers; J. Lemon, et al. Streaming flow analyses for pre-fetching in segment-based proxy caching to improve delivery quality; Songqing Chen, et al. 5: Customization. Subscription-enhanced content delivery; Mao Chen, et al. Cooperative architectures and algorithms for discovery and transcoding of multi-version content; C. Canali, et al. Synopsis: User specific request redirection in a content delivery network; S. Rangarajan, et al. 6: Peer-to-Peer. Friendships that last: Peer lifespan and its role in P2P protocols; F.E. Bustamente, Yi Qiao. Synopsis: A fine-grained peer sharing technique for delivering large media files over the Internet; Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei. 7: Performance and Measurement. Proxy-cache aware object bundling for Web access acceleration; Chi Hung Chi, et al. Synopsis: A case for dynamic selection of replication and caching strategies; S. Sivasubramanian, et al. Synopsis: Link prefetching in Mozilla: A server-driven approach; D. Fisher, G. Sakensa. Synopsis: A generalized model for characterizing content modification dynamics of Web objects; Chi Hung Chi, HongGuang Wang. 8: Delta Encoding. Server-friendly delta compression for efficient Web access; A. Savant, T. Suel. Evaluation of ESI and class-based delta encoding; M. Naaman, et al. Author Index.